Space Force envisions ‘freight trains’ to space, ‘Walmarts on orbit’
Stephen "Bucky" Butow, director of space at the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit summed up the end goal for future operations as creating a "blue collar space."
Space Force delivers first payload for Japan’s QZSS satellites
The two hosted payloads, designed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, will keep tabs on spacecraft and dangerous debris in geosynchronous orbit (GEO).
Breaking Defense announces Breaking Defense Europe, a new, distinct, European edition
Breaking Defense Europe will launch May 4 with Tim Martin and Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo as co-editors.
Startup SCOUT piques Space Force interest with space data software
Sergio Gallucci, SCOUT co-founder and chief technology officer, told Breaking Defense that its new AFWERX contract is focused on demonstrating its software for integrating and streamlining unclassified data from multiple satellites.
To infinity and beyond: New Space Force unit to monitor ‘xGEO’ beyond Earth’s orbit
Space Force has established the new 19th Space Defense Squadron to monitor what officials now refer to as "xGEO" space.
Key space monitoring sensors still rely on outdated CAVENet computer system
At the moment it is unclear when Space Force and Space Command actually will decommission CAVEnet, 2000s-era tech that analysts use for highly accurate and classified tracking of space objects.
Space Force to loft 2 new ‘neighborhood watch’ sats, as leader frets launch funds
Chief of Space Operations Gen. Jay Raymond said should a year-long continuing resolution come to pass, the disruption for sat launches would "ripple" for years.
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Space Force plans multiple hosted payloads for GEO belt monitoring
Space System Command's overarching goal is to develop "diverse" capabilities for space domain awareness across all orbits.
US, China, Russia Test New Space War Tactics: Sats Buzzing, Spoofing, Spying
Models shared exclusively with Breaking Defense offer a rare glimpse into nation-on-nation run-ins in space as satellites follow, flee, and, allegedly, listen in on each other.
What Satellite Attack Weapon Might The US Reveal Soon?
Space based jammers? Kinetic kill vehicles? Ground based lasers? The Pentagon has a space weapon it's ready to show, but it's not clear exactly what it will be.
Lamborn, Horn Pledge Bipartisan Support For Space
"I think maybe there is a mutual assured destruction in space," Rep. Lamborn said, "where no one will go there because the consequences will be too severe."
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SDA Will Control Many Sat Buys, But NOT NROs: Tournear
"We are the ones that say this is what needs to be done" to build a next-gen space architecture, says SDA Acting Director Derek Tournear. Except when they don't.
Intel Community’s Secrecy Culture Frustrates DoD Sat Safety Effort
"People at the NRO and others hiding in unmarked cubicles in other parts of northern Virginia started breathing into bags like never before," said one DoD source about the 2018 SSA transparency policy.
Space Lasers for Satellite Defense Top New French Space Strategy
French Defense Minister Florence Parley says she has been exploring with French defense giant Thales concepts for what she called "fearsome little detectors" that "will be the eyes of our most valuable satellites."
CR Will Stall New Black Counterspace, RD-180 Replacement
AFA CONFERENCE: One of the rules that goes with a Continuing Resolution is that no new weapon programs can be started — unless Congress comes up with money and provides a waiver. And it looks as if Congress is likely to adopt a CR at the end of the month unless we all get very lucky. […]